On January 29, 2015, IBM announced the 2015 Early Access and Beta program for IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log Analysis for z/OS. Since then, we have changed the name of our offering -- it is now called IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems -- and released a...

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Do you care for low latency between AIX and the mainframe? It might be due to CPU folding : https://ibm.biz/BdXGhu SAP applicaitons runing on AIX via DB2 CLI were not meeting the target of getting lower than 1 ms avgRTTs into DB2 on the z/OS over ...

Author: @Shigeki_Kimura 270002UD7W As the first release of z/OS V2, z/OS V2R1 was generally available in September 2013. In 2014, many customers have successfully completed the migration to z/OS V2R1. I would like to share with you the...

Today we announce the addition of OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 UI and OMEGAMON DE to the existing OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite Beta program. We are looking for customers and business partners who are interested in working with us to shape and...

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I was attempting to move away from posting about fixes to issues in DB2. It felt like I was doing it way to often, almost like a easy why out of dreaming up my own content. However, with that said, I thought the following APAR was worth...

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The new IBM Redbook introduces the new IBM z13 mainframe. It gives a hardware overview, describes key functions and capabilities. provides some information about the operating system support including z/VSE, and more. The "IBM z13 Technical...

When I work with millennials these days in all different management and programming duties, the experience is always very interesting. Each millennial has a very different point of view of IT and data processing. Even within the Big 4 consulting firms’...

The IBM z13, like its predecessors, is designed from the chip level up to support data processing. This includes a strong, fast I/O infrastructure, cache on the chip to bring data close to processing power, security and compression capabilities of the...

Runtime Diagnostics is a “point-in-time” diagnostics tool that detects problems that could be contributing to system issues RIGHT NOW with the goal of finding the problems in sixty seconds or less. It has been available since V1R12 and as of V1R13,...

If you are running your z/VSE systems on zBC12 or zEC12 mainframes, you may be interested in the corresponding IBM Redbook Technical Guides. The following two guides were just updated: IBM zEnterprise BC12 Technical Guide...

Release 1.11.2 of IBM Security zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM has become generally available on March 13, 2015. This release of zSecure for z/VM includes the zSecure Compliance Testing Framework that was first made available for...